American Health Policy Institute study on the health care excise tax, ACA Excise Tax: Cutting Family Budgets, Not Health Care Budgets


American Health Policy Institute study on the health care excise tax, ACA Excise Tax: Cutting Family Budgets, Not Health Care Budgets


American Health Policy Institute study on the health care excise tax, ACA Excise Tax: Cutting Family Budgets, Not Health Care Budgets found that:

  • Almost 90 percent of large employers are taking steps to try to prevent their company from having a plan that triggers the excise tax in 2018;
  • Over 30 percent of large employers said they would have at least one plan impacted by the excise tax in 2018;
  • Almost half of the employers that did not have plans hitting the excise tax in 2018 said they would have a plan that would be impacted by 2023;
  • Almost 19 percent of large employers were already curtailing or eliminating employee contributions to flexible spending accounts (FSAs) in order to avoid triggering the excise tax;
  • Almost 13 percent were already curtailing or eliminating employee contributions to health savings accounts (HSAs); and
  • Among employers who are going to reduce the values of their plans as a result of the excise tax, 71 percent of employers said that they probably would not provide a corresponding wage increase; 16 percent said they would raise wages in response to benefit cuts.
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American Health Policy Institute study on the health care excise tax, ACA Excise Tax: Cutting Family Budgets, Not Health Care Budgets

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